Seamer and Irton Community Primary School

Seamer and Irton Community Primary School is a welcoming and friendly maintained primary school where pupils are happy, relationships are trusting and safeguarding is effective. Behaviour and attitudes, personal development and early years provision are strengths: children settle quickly in Reception, pupils develop positive attitudes, and they benefit from a broad range of clubs, trips and community activities. The school has also improved early reading and provides strong pastoral care for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). However, the school's ambition for all pupils is not yet fully realised. The quality of education and leadership and management require improvement because the new curriculum is not consistently taught well enough for pupils to build knowledge securely. In some subjects, teachers do not use information about pupils' prior knowledge precisely enough, activities do not consistently help pupils learn, and gaps are not addressed swiftly. Provision for some pupils with SEND is not precise enough, and the school does not yet have the information it needs to evaluate the quality of education and identify priorities consistently. This was a graded inspection carried out in June 2025. The school was previously judged good at its September 2023 inspection and is maintained by the local authority. Inspectors found that leaders and staff share an ambitious vision, staff workload and well-being are considered, and governors have improved their oversight, but more work is needed to ensure all pupils receive a high-quality education.

Strengths

• Pupils are happy and attend a welcoming, friendly school.
• Pupils and staff build trusting relationships.
• Pupils learn the school's values, including kindness and respect.
• Older pupils support younger pupils to socialise at breaktimes.
• Behaviour and attitudes are good, with clear golden rules and positive attitudes to learning.
• Children in Reception settle quickly into routines.
• The Reception Year identifies gaps precisely and builds firm foundations for future learning.
• The school has improved its approach to teaching early reading and phonics.
• Pupils practise reading often with books well matched to their phonics knowledge.
• Pupils with SEND are well cared for and receive supportive pastoral care.
• Personal development is good and includes a wide range of opportunities.
• Pupils learn about democracy and community through trips and local projects.
• The school broadened its clubs to support a wider range of interests.
• Pupils are well prepared for life in modern Britain.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.
• Staff share the school's ambitious vision and appreciate consideration for workload and well-being.
• Governors have improved their oversight and visit the school often.

Areas for Improvement

• The quality of education requires improvement.
• Leadership and management require improvement.
• The ambitious curriculum is not consistently implemented well enough.
• Teachers do not use information about pupils' prior knowledge precisely enough in some subjects.
• Some lesson activities do not help pupils build subject knowledge effectively.
• Gaps in pupils' knowledge are not addressed swiftly enough.
• Provision for some pupils with SEND is not precise or targeted enough.
• Some SEND targets do not clearly outline what pupils should achieve and how.
• Staff do not always have the information needed to provide the right support for pupils with SEND.
• The school cannot accurately check how well some pupils are achieving.
• The school lacks the information needed to evaluate the quality of education.
• Areas for improvement are not consistently identified.
• The school cannot consistently provide staff with advice and guidance on how to improve.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Seamer and Irton Community Primary School attended 95.2% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 8.9% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.7% of pupils at Seamer and Irton Community Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Seamer and Irton Community Primary School had 26.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 6.9% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 16.0% of pupils at Seamer and Irton Community Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.5% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Seamer and Irton Community Primary School received £6,247 and spent £5,914 for each of its 401 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £292,000 (£728 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is Seamer and Irton Community Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Seamer and Irton Community Primary School is Requires Improvement, from an inspection in September 2025.

When was Seamer and Irton Community Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Seamer and Irton Community Primary School was last inspected in September 2025.

How many pupils does Seamer and Irton Community Primary School have?

Seamer and Irton Community Primary School has 401 pupils on roll.

What age range does Seamer and Irton Community Primary School cover?

Seamer and Irton Community Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are Seamer and Irton Community Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 57% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Seamer and Irton Community Primary School?

Seamer and Irton Community Primary School is at Denison Avenue, Seamer, Seamer and Irton Cp School, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, YO12 4QX.